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Democrats take aim at DOGE, Elon Musk
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on Democrat pushback on the Department of Government Efficiency and its proposed cuts to government spending.
It is said that talk is cheap.
And that’s why House Republicans have done so much of it as they attempted to forge an internal agreement on a budget plan to slash taxes and cut spending.
It is now the middle of February. House Republicans struggled to finalize plans for what President Donald Trump terms a “big beautiful bill.” Especially when you consider all of the talking Republicans did – among themselves – since the start of the year.
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House Republicans cloistered themselves for not one but two daylong sessions on Saturday, Jan. 4, and Sunday, Jan. 5, at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. That’s where House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, and Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., presented their ideas to slash spending and engineer a budget reconciliation package.
Keep that term in mind. Budget reconciliation. More on that in a moment.
Back on Capitol Hill, House Republicans convened multiple large and small meetings to lay out details on their package. That included a three-day session at President Trump’s golf club in Doral, Florida.
Republicans returned to Washington with claims of “unity.” But still no agreement.
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Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images/File)
Arrington hoped to prepare the budget plan in his committee last week. Such a meeting would produce a “budget reconciliation” package. Budget reconciliation is a process where the Senate can bypass a filibuster and approve a bill with a simple majority. But the package must be fiscal in nature, such as addressing spending cuts and taxes….
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